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New Paradigms and Big Disruptive Things

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Peer-to-peer, cognitive computing and quantum computing seem to be the major, disruptive trends for the near and distant future. Given that they are the candidates for disruption in economy, technology and society, we will analyze these three paradigms in more detail.

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Oppitz, M., Tomsu, P. (2018). New Paradigms and Big Disruptive Things. In: Inventing the Cloud Century. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-61161-7_20

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